The line graphs illustrates information regarding subscriptions to cell phones and landline telephones from the year 2005 to 2015 in four different countries (India, UK, Eritrea and Uruguay).
Overall, mobile phone subscriptions had a higher connections per hundred people in comparison to fixed telephone connections, signifying the general preference for mobile phones. However, in the country Eritrea, both landline telephones and cell phones had an abysmally low subscription rate near zero throughout the years.
Countries like India and Uruguay had an accelerating growth for mobile phone connections whilst UK had a steady graph with a slight increase from 2005 to 2006. Uruguay had the highest number of cell phone users starting from around 35 in 2005 to 175 in 2013, followed by a slight dip in 2014 that remained constant till 2015. India had approximately 15 mobile phone users in 2005 that persisted till 2007 after which the escalation began reaching to around 65 in 2015. Eritrea had approximately 10 mobile subscriptions, with faint growth throughout, reaching only 15 in 2015.
UK leads the fixed phone category, with a subtle deceleration throught the decade. UK has a minor increase between the years 2008 to 2009, immediately followed by a decrease from 2009 to 2010. Uruguay has a slight parabola shaped curve with peaks at 2005 and 2015 and a dip in between. India and Eritrea are at the bottom of this graph with an extremely low number of fixed telephone subscriptions. However, there is a slight difference as India’s telephone subscription line can be seen decelerating whilst Eritrea’s can be seen accelerating, nevertheless both changes are minor.